Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, southern style brined chicken. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Southern Style Brined Chicken is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Southern Style Brined Chicken is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
As some one who has lived all across the South, from Texas, to Maryland, to South Florida, and all in between, I would like to think I'm an expert when it comes to southern fried chicken. Add the chicken pieces and toss and turn to coat. Please refer to my Southern Style Brined Oven Roasted Crispy Chicken recipe as a basis on how to cook this.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook southern style brined chicken using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Southern Style Brined Chicken:
- Take 1 whole chicken (3-6 pounds)
- Take 8 quart stock pot
- Take 1 gallon water (cool tap water)
- Prepare 1/2 cup regular table salt
- Take 1 cup packed dark brown sugar
- Prepare 1 tbsp garlic powder
- Make ready 1 tbsp onion powder
- Prepare 1 tsp ground black pepper
- Prepare 1 lemon halved and squeezed into brine
I was so excited to see your Southern fried chicken recipe using a brine instead of soaking chicken in buttermilk! I've lived in the South my whole life so buttermilk is the usual recipe, but I have a sweet adopted son who is very allergic to dairy and peanuts. So I can't use buttermilk or peanut oil any more. Typically, the way fried chicken is seasoned in the South, depends solely on how you grew-up eating it.
Instructions to make Southern Style Brined Chicken:
- Please refer to my Southern Style Brined Oven Roasted Crispy Chicken recipe as a basis on how to cook this.
- Pour tap water and remaining ingredients into your stock pot. Stir and allow for the salt and sugar to dissolve. 10-20 minutes.
- Add chicken and and allow to soak in brine for at least 2 hours refrigerated. Overnight is optimal.
- If using boneless skinless breast or the like, 2-4 hours soaking is fine. Cook brined chicken as desired. Cut up and fried, roasted, smoked, grilled,etc. No matter how you choose to cook it, it makes a big difference taste wise. Enjoy
- Feel free to add any herbs that you like. Rosemary, Thyme, Basil, Oregano, Etc. Even add a bottle of your favorite beer. Have fun with it. This is also excellent for pork and turkey as well. There is no substitution for salt in this recipe.
Some cooks add herbs to the flour, some marinate chicken pieces in hot sauce, some add more seasonings, in addition to table salt and black pepper for the breading. Some cook's season the dredge and not the chicken. Combine water, vinegar, salt, brown sugar, thyme, parsley, rosemary, garlic, and chiles in a large stockpot. Refer to my Southern Style Brined Chicken recipe for the brining process. Salt and pepper inside of chicken cavity.
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